Jeroen De Reu
Main research objectives:
(i) the use of 3D technology in the documentation and analysis of archaeological heritage.
(ii) the investigation and development of GIS methodologies for the analysis and modelling of archaeological landscapes.
(iii) the study of the (Middle) Bronze Age landscapes and communities in north-west Europe.
(i) the use of 3D technology in the documentation and analysis of archaeological heritage.
(ii) the investigation and development of GIS methodologies for the analysis and modelling of archaeological landscapes.
(iii) the study of the (Middle) Bronze Age landscapes and communities in north-west Europe.
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(i) the study of the Bronze Age barrow landscape and the Bronze Age communities in north-western Belgium,
(ii) the investigation and development of GIS methodologies for the analysis and modelling of archaeological landscapes.
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the chronology of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age urnfield cemeteries in Belgium. The growing amount of 14C dates
on these cremated remains led to new insights into the chronology, development, and disappearance of the urnfield phenomenon.
Consequently, ideas about cultural and historical processes need to be modified. Also, the internal chronology of the
cemeteries is much more complex than previously thought, stimulating the need for techniques to analyze and visualize the
internal development of an individual burial site. The application of centrographic methods like the mean center, standard distance
circle, and standard deviational ellipse illustrates the possibilities for analyzing the internal chronology of the cemeteries
based on the available 14C dates.
Les tombelles de l’âge du Bronze en Flandre sablonneuse (nord-ouest de la Belgique): un status quaestionis
Ces dernières décennies, la Flandre sablonneuse a été le sujet de prospections aériennes systématiques et intensives. Un des résultats majeurs de ces prospections est la découverte de plusieurs centaines de tombelles de l’âge du Bronze. Plusieurs sites ont ensuite été étudiés pendant des fouilles archéologiques. Ces dernières années, l’ensemble des données ainsi collectionnées a permis d’établir un inventaire systématique et exhaustif. En total, 1105 monuments funéraires de l’âge du Bronze ont pu être identifiés et localisés de manière précise. L’inventaire détaillé constitue aujourd’hui la base d’analyses SIG et statistiques du phénomène des tombelles de l’âge du Bronze dans le nord-ouest de la Belgique. Grâce à cette approche fondée sur le SIG, de nouvelles idées concernant la distribution et la localisation des tombelles dans le paysage ont pu être acquises.
Abstract:
For 30 years now, Sandy Flanders is the subject of systematic and intensive aerial photographical surveys. The Bronze Age barrow research has yielded one of the major results with the discovery of several hundreds of monuments. Consequently, several barrow sites have been further investigated during excavations. During the last few years, this dataset was the subject of a systematic and thorough inventory. To date, a total of 1105 Bronze Age burial monuments could be identified and precisely located. The detailed inventory is the base of an extensive GIS and statistical analysis of the Bronze Age barrow phenomenon in north-western Belgium. Thanks to this GIS-based approach new insights could be gained in the distribution and the location of the burial mounds in the landscape and in the mutual relation between the monuments."
magnetic surveys are usually conducted with magnetometers and, to a lesser extent, with magnetic susceptibilitymeters
and electromagnetic induction (EMI) sensors. Although the latter are the only instruments that allow mapping multiple
physical soil properties simultaneously, EMI remains the odd-one-out in archaeogeophysical prospection. Nevertheless,
by simultaneously recording the electric andmagnetic soil variability, EMI survey can be beneficial in early archaeological
evaluation stages, because detailed pedological and archaeological information is gathered at the same time. Furthermore,
by usingmulti-receiver EMI instruments vertical soil variation also can be integrated into the survey. However, although the
potential of EMI for mapping electric soil variations is well known from advances in soil science, magnetic susceptibility
measurements have been investigated less. Here we show the potential of a multi-receiver EMI survey to detect weak
magnetic anomalies bymeasuring the apparentmagnetic susceptibility (κa) ofmultiple soil volumes at a test site. The shal-
low κa data were compared with topsoil susceptibility measurements using a magnetic susceptibility loop sensor survey,
and with magnetic susceptibility profiling using a probe sensor for evaluating the deeper κa-data. Further comparisons
weremade between these datasets and aerial photography and fieldwalking data.We found that themultiple EMI κa mea-
surements allowed for a straightforward discrimination of the natural and anthropogenicmagnetic variations of shallowand
deeper soil volumes, and allowed visualizing weak magnetic anomalies.
(i) the study of the Bronze Age barrow landscape and the Bronze Age communities in north-western Belgium,
(ii) the investigation and development of GIS methodologies for the analysis and modelling of archaeological landscapes.
the chronology of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age urnfield cemeteries in Belgium. The growing amount of 14C dates
on these cremated remains led to new insights into the chronology, development, and disappearance of the urnfield phenomenon.
Consequently, ideas about cultural and historical processes need to be modified. Also, the internal chronology of the
cemeteries is much more complex than previously thought, stimulating the need for techniques to analyze and visualize the
internal development of an individual burial site. The application of centrographic methods like the mean center, standard distance
circle, and standard deviational ellipse illustrates the possibilities for analyzing the internal chronology of the cemeteries
based on the available 14C dates.
Les tombelles de l’âge du Bronze en Flandre sablonneuse (nord-ouest de la Belgique): un status quaestionis
Ces dernières décennies, la Flandre sablonneuse a été le sujet de prospections aériennes systématiques et intensives. Un des résultats majeurs de ces prospections est la découverte de plusieurs centaines de tombelles de l’âge du Bronze. Plusieurs sites ont ensuite été étudiés pendant des fouilles archéologiques. Ces dernières années, l’ensemble des données ainsi collectionnées a permis d’établir un inventaire systématique et exhaustif. En total, 1105 monuments funéraires de l’âge du Bronze ont pu être identifiés et localisés de manière précise. L’inventaire détaillé constitue aujourd’hui la base d’analyses SIG et statistiques du phénomène des tombelles de l’âge du Bronze dans le nord-ouest de la Belgique. Grâce à cette approche fondée sur le SIG, de nouvelles idées concernant la distribution et la localisation des tombelles dans le paysage ont pu être acquises.
Abstract:
For 30 years now, Sandy Flanders is the subject of systematic and intensive aerial photographical surveys. The Bronze Age barrow research has yielded one of the major results with the discovery of several hundreds of monuments. Consequently, several barrow sites have been further investigated during excavations. During the last few years, this dataset was the subject of a systematic and thorough inventory. To date, a total of 1105 Bronze Age burial monuments could be identified and precisely located. The detailed inventory is the base of an extensive GIS and statistical analysis of the Bronze Age barrow phenomenon in north-western Belgium. Thanks to this GIS-based approach new insights could be gained in the distribution and the location of the burial mounds in the landscape and in the mutual relation between the monuments."
magnetic surveys are usually conducted with magnetometers and, to a lesser extent, with magnetic susceptibilitymeters
and electromagnetic induction (EMI) sensors. Although the latter are the only instruments that allow mapping multiple
physical soil properties simultaneously, EMI remains the odd-one-out in archaeogeophysical prospection. Nevertheless,
by simultaneously recording the electric andmagnetic soil variability, EMI survey can be beneficial in early archaeological
evaluation stages, because detailed pedological and archaeological information is gathered at the same time. Furthermore,
by usingmulti-receiver EMI instruments vertical soil variation also can be integrated into the survey. However, although the
potential of EMI for mapping electric soil variations is well known from advances in soil science, magnetic susceptibility
measurements have been investigated less. Here we show the potential of a multi-receiver EMI survey to detect weak
magnetic anomalies bymeasuring the apparentmagnetic susceptibility (κa) ofmultiple soil volumes at a test site. The shal-
low κa data were compared with topsoil susceptibility measurements using a magnetic susceptibility loop sensor survey,
and with magnetic susceptibility profiling using a probe sensor for evaluating the deeper κa-data. Further comparisons
weremade between these datasets and aerial photography and fieldwalking data.We found that themultiple EMI κa mea-
surements allowed for a straightforward discrimination of the natural and anthropogenicmagnetic variations of shallowand
deeper soil volumes, and allowed visualizing weak magnetic anomalies.
In: Bérenger D., Bourgeois J., Talon M., Wirth S. (Eds.). Gräberlandschaften der Bronzezeit - Paysages funéraires de l'Âge du Bronze. Internationales Kolloquium zur Bronzezeit - Colloque International sur l'âge du Bronze. Herne, 15.-18. Oktober 2008. Bodenaltertümer Westfalens 51. Darmstadt: Verlag Philipp von Zabern: 265-282.